Technological adaptation, cities and new work

Jeffrey Lin

No 09-17, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Abstract: Where does adaptation to innovation take place? The author presents evidence on the role of agglomeration economies in the application of new knowledge to production. All else equal, workers are more likely to be observed in new work in locations that are initially dense in both college graduates and industry variety. This pattern is consistent with economies of density from the geographic concentration of factors and markets related to technological adaptation. A main contribution is to use a new measure, based on revisions to occupation classifications, to closely characterize cross-sectional differences across U.S. cities in adaptation to technological change. Worker-level results also provide new evidence on the skill bias of recent innovations.

Keywords: Cities and towns; Urban economics; Labor market; Job creation; technological innovations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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